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    Summary Of The Crucible

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    The Crucible The title of the play is called the Crucible By: Arthur Miller. This play is basically about how a couple of people is accused of witchcraft in a little town called Salem. People where very religious in this town and got rid of anything they though was connected to the devil. The most admirable character is Mary Warren she is very honest and innocent. Mary went to the trials‚ she made the doll that basically put Elizabeth in jail‚ When proctor made her lie she still came out and told

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    work. This idea is manifested in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. He incorporates the political drama of the era into the play about the Salem Witch Trials. Therefore‚ The Crucible is a mirror image of the McCarthyism that occurred during the 1950s. This fact is reflected through the various connections in characters‚ themes. First‚ there are characters in the play which represent the actual people involved and affected by the McCarthy era. One such character is Abigail Williams‚ who represents Joseph

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    What is the significance of the title in The Crucible? The title of The Crucible effectively helps us to understand the play in a deeper and more thorough way as the definitions of the noun ‘crucible’ reflects the themes of the play such as moral‚ reputation‚ courage‚ righteousness‚ hysteria and truth. It also foreshadows the severe and unjust persecution of the upright characters who hold on to their beliefs and moral values‚ as the word ‘crucible’ comes from the Latin word ‘crucibulum’‚ which derives

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    Immorality In The Crucible

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    Act one of The Crucible begins with the confusion over what happened in the recent forest incident involving Abigail‚ Betty‚ Mary‚ Mercy‚ and Tituba. After a lot of questioning and uncertainty about the situation‚ all of the character except Abigail‚ Betty‚ Mercy and Mary leave the room. Through the discussion they had while alone‚ Miller reveals to the audience that the girls’ actions had nothing to do with witchcraft. However‚ the other characters suspected witchcraft as what they

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    The crucible essay

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    Williams Hayes 11/12/13 B4 How does Arthur Miller use a specific character to portray how people solve or fail to solve moral problems? A crucible refers to a container made of a substance that can resist great heat‚ for melting. In “The Crucible” the author uses characters that have moral problems that they either solve or fail to solve. John Proctor‚ Abigail‚ and Reverend Hale are considered the main characters in “The Crucible”. Abigail’s moral problem is lying. Abigail failed to solve her

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    The Crucible Mob

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    beginning to act as a mob by using characters of mobs do to this. We find out one of the characteristics of a mob in this summary of how they formed a large group over time. The citizens of salem are being suspicious of witchcraft and forming a large group in parris’s house.In the scene people bargde intp parrises house and began to discuss witchcraft and how his granddaughter is sick. More people

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    The Crucible: Summary

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    troubles‚ but she leaves anyway. Giles asks Hale what reading strange books means because he often finds his wife‚ Martha‚ reading books. The night before‚ he tried to pray but found that he could not succeed until Martha closed her book and left the house. (Giles has a bad reputation in Salem‚ and people generally blame him for thefts and random fires. He cares little for public opinion‚ and he only began attending church regularly after he married Martha. Giles does not mention that he only recently

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    Arthur Millers play‚ The Crucible‚ is a great example on how literature seeks to communicate power. Within the play‚ Miller tries to express a message to the reader. The message he tries to get across is that fear can make people do ridiculous things. The people of Salem were so afraid of witches’; anything that was out of the ordinary would be considered witchcraft. The people would accuse Mr. Jacobs‚ an old man that could barely walk‚ of climbing into a small girls window with a black man whispering

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    The Crucible Moral

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    When reading The Crucible your mind is very lost as their morals and believes aren’t the same as our own today. The play is about witchcraft and the girls who dance as if they are witches which is considered to be immoral. The characters in this story seem to have something bad happening to them they just aren’t aware of it right away. Paris is very religious he prays a lot in the play‚ but he also seems to be very concerned as to if is daughter is lying about dancing around the fire. Knowing the

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    In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor proclaims “Because it is my name! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of those who hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” This quote shows both the dilemma in the Salem Witch Trials‚ which Arthur Miller set his story in‚ and the era of McCarthyism which he kind of writes about; John was going to confess to being a witch but couldn’t because he didn’t want to ruin

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